I've almost always felt that most NIN albums flow really well into one another when listened to in chronological order. I've always liked doing a full re-listen of every major album whenever new material is coming out, a tour is coming up, etc. for bands that I like, and I always thought that the way that Ripe (With Decay) goes into All the Love in the World is incredible, for instance. There's a cohesiveness thematically and sonically that can link up really well.
I definitely think that the ending of Hesitation Marks -- where there's an acceptance of inevitable fate, of the darker parts of your identity not only still existing, but taking eventual control, the fear of what's coming before the silent acceptance at the end of While I'm Still Here, the muffled screaming and suppressed expression of Black Noise as all of it gets eaten alive by that "machine side" that Trent's had in his music explicitly since TDS but present since before then -- makes NTAE serve amazingly as the next "piece" of that narrative. I don't think this is some totally intentional thing, but it's still interesting and makes for some great listenings.
Oh my god, I thought the same thing about "All The Love In The World". I always felt like it seemed like a natural sequel to the entire album as a whole.
The only real album that doesn't fit this, as I'd like to call it "NIN canon" would probably Year Zero, its themes and sounds are very different from rest of the discography.
I can't imagine "Right Where It Belongs" seque into "HYPERPOWER!" but it really nicely goes into The Slip.
The Slip expands upon the ideas of With_Teeth, of feeling like being in a dream and not belonging, not having your place, resolved in "Demon Seed"
I don't know if this was posted before and i wasn't really sure where to put this; but it's worth the watch:
At the end of "She's Gone Away" around 5:31 i always hear some creepy sounds which i cant realy place. Almost like a synthesizer based wind and a pitched sound which almost resembles a female moan.. if not an animal. I wonder if that is some synthesizer artifact or a loop made out of something sampled.
I just talked to Trent and can confirm it is indeed one of his babies. He was trying to get his baby to say "Hello Daddy". Carry on.
Did anyone notice that Burning Bright kinda transitions back into Branches/Bones pretty smoothly when the album is played on loop? (Kinda like The Wall).
It seems like this EP is a never ending loop, at Burning Bright the protagonist, or some part of him breaks free.
Yet towards the end of it, he confesses to not knowing difference between a dream and reality anymore, the EP stutters out and then Branches/Bones restarts it.
Branches/Bones, lyrically, seems almost like a direct response to Burning Bright, maybe it's just me.
Has this been mentioned already? Amazon has a listing for a cd version of NTAE, with a release date of June 16
First, there was Firebrand's last-gasp testament that the vinyl pre-orders were rumored to be shipping in late-May.
Then, that ominous message from the band about the NIN store going new and improved in early-June.
Now this..
These just might be the "actual events"; the plot is thickening..
I just pre-ordered it so it better not be a fucking bootleg
correct me if i'm wrong, it's not on the UK amazon store,
well i can't find it......
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I'm seeing the CD up for preorder on a couple websites. One of them identifies it as being from Holland.
twenty bucks for a cd ep? fuck off.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/not-the-...skuId=33028195
(holiday) <---- not sure what that even means. Delivery date says September 1st.
Do not know.